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I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: October 31
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Katherine Womeldorf Paterson
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Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.
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Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
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It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment.
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...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.
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Shh he said. Look. Where? Can't you see'um? he whispered. All the Terabithians standing on tiptoe to see you. Me? Shh, yes. There's a rumor going around that the beautiful girl arrving today might be the queen they've been waiting for.
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Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August.
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Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.
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life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
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Miss Edmunds was one of his secrets. He was in love with her. Not the kind of silly stuff Ellie and Brenda giggled about on the telephone. This was too real and too deep to talk about, even to think about very much.
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As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.
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You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.
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Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my own life.
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Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.
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We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.
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Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately marketable.
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You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
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On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.
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Youth is a mortal wound.
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You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.
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